After graduation, she nurtured her artistic talent by completing a four-year correspondence art course while living at home with her family.Īfter William Andrews died in the late 1960s, Virginia helped to support herself and her mother through her extremely successful career as a commercial artist, portrait painter, and fashion illustrator.įrustrated with the lack of creative satisfaction that her work provided, Virginia sought creative release through writing, which she did in secret. She proudly earned her diploma from Woodrow Wilson High School in Portsmouth. Virginia excelled in school and, at fifteen, won a scholarship for writing a parody of Tennyson's Idylls of the King. Arthritis and a failed spinal surgical procedure forced her to spend most of her life on crutches or in a wheelchair. While a teenager, Virginia suffered a tragic accident, falling down the stairs at her school and incurred severe back injuries. The Andrews family returned to Portsmouth while Virginia was in high school. She spent her happy childhood years in Portsmouth, Virginia, living briefly in Rochester, New York. The youngest child and the only daughter of William Henry Andrews, a career navy man who opened a tool-and-die business after retirement, and Lillian Lilnora Parker Andrews, a telephone operator. Virginia Cleo Andrews (born Cleo Virginia Andrews) was born Jin Portsmouth, Virginia. Books since her death ghost written by Andrew Neiderman, but still attributed to the V.C. And no family name can protect her from the twisted roots of the Dollanganger family tree.īooks published under the following names - Virginia Andrews, V. Caught between mastering the game to escape it and falling prey to its allure, she needs to learn fast-for Malcolm Foxworth has cast his eye in her direction. While he is free to leave the house, Marlena is left to avoid lecherous tutors and the secretary-to-wife track expected of a woman. But in America, you can either make friends or make profit, and Yvon suddenly seems much more interested in the latter. Trapped in a mansion with as many secrets as rooms, Marlena yearns for escape. Sent to Richmond, Virginia, they arrive at the home of two aunts they’ve never met before, who tell them that their true last name is Dawson, that their father had fled the family years back-and that now the family is calling in the debt. When a car crash kills their parents, Marlena and Yvon lose not only France, but also their identity. She loved her family she just didn’t know what her family actually was. She had a talented artist for a father, a doting mother, and a brother she couldn’t be closer to.
As a young girl in France, Marlena Hunter’s life was a fairy tale.
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